Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 114
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Michael
speaks of a very interesting aspect of LIFE…TIME: past, present, and
future. And, he brings us to the point
of having to acknowledge in WHAT time of our life are we living. And his vast amount of discipling gives
record of the drastic hindrance (if not, damage) that “living in the past” does
to any individual. Thank you, Michael,
for drawing our attention to this!
DAY 300
There Is No God In the Past
He again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David
after so long a time just as has been said before, “TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS
VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.” --Hebrews 4:7
Man for sure
possesses the present and, in a certain measure, the future. Man does not
possess the past, ever! If we
choose to live in the past, we choose darkness and we exclude God, for He will
not move to the past with us. Therefore, every time we venture into the past with our mind and
emotions, we venture there alone. In fact, God calls us, always, to move from the past, for to dwell
there is to find ourselves in a place where there is no hope. The Jews
were in the world without a hope. That is, they were trusting in the things of
the past--the law and the security of ritual and formula—and neglecting what
God was bestowing on them in the present, which is Jesus.
Does it not make
sense that God wants to be the God of the NOW? We speak of a personal relationship with Him. How can a
relationship be personal if it is not a current relationship? To move into the past is to move
away from God, and it is sin. Many today are counseled to relive the
past in order to mourn over it and work through it; they are even warned that
if they do not, their life will remain in constant turmoil. If the past created my problems,
why would I want to return and spend time there? In my office I spend up
to one hour looking at the past of an individual. The only reason is to bring
understanding of its impact so that the person need never go back to it. Living in the past will always
thwart growth, not something enjoyable to anyone.
In the past we all
had wonderful successes and terrible failures, times of great joy and
unbelievable depression. Fine, but now what? Today hear His voice! God says do
something today and do not live out of the past, where it is true we provoked
Him, but I refuse to discuss that. I want to discuss today. Yesterday is no excuse for
today! Many use it as such. “I cannot love today because of emotional
hurt yesterday.” “I cannot give today because of all my rejection yesterday. I
need to take.” Experience
what it means to be a person walking with God daily, a present activity.
Not only do we walk with Him,
but He walks among us, all in the present. Leviticus 26:12, “I will also walk among you and be your
God, and you shall be My people.” We need never allow the enemy to steal the present by
moving us to the past, and the past is anything that happened before you read
this article.
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
It is interesting to do a word study through the Strong’s Concordance and
find all the verses in the NT that involve “past” or “present,” and phrases
that draw upon those time frames. It is
quite apparent that God is interested in man “getting past the past” and living
in the present, with a hope to the future.
Period. The Apostle Paul is one
of the most prolific preachers of “today.”
Michael gives us some outstanding principles to get into “today”:
If we choose to live in the past, we choose
darkness and exclude God, for He
will not move to the past with us.
God calls us, always, to move from the past, for to
dwell there is to find our ourselves in a place where there is no hope.
To move into the past is to move away from God, and
it is sin. If the past
created my problems, why would I want to return and
spend time there?
Yesterday is no excuse for today! Many use it as such.
Experience what it means to be a person walking
with God daily, a present
activity.
Not only do we walk with Him, but He walks among
us, all in the present.
We need never allow the enemy to steal the present
by moving us to the past,
and the past is anything that happened before you
read this article.
Now…which do you choose? Walking
with God…or, with your past? I thought
so…
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